Tire manufacturers are getting bold these days, pumping out tires that barely pass the bar for what counts as street legal. Take the Michelin Power Cup 2, for example. If it weren’t for the scant traces of tread marks down the middle, you could easily mistake these tires for a racing slick. And with a 5% void ratio, clearly, that’s the point. Michelin also goes so far as to outright claim the Power Cup 2 as a 90/10 tire – that is, it’s made to spend 90% of its time on track and 10% on the street. The slight tread profile proves just enough for the Department of Transportation to deem it legal for use on public roads. With that endorsement, KTM – you know, being “Ready To Race” and all – have even found it fitting to slap the Power Cup 2 tires on the 890 Duke R – stock!

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KTM is teasing a collaboration with German tuning house Brabus, with a new naked bike based on the 1290 Super Duke EVO. According to the teasers, 2022 Brabus 1300 R is due to be announced on Feb. 11, but the bike briefly popped up on KTM’s official website. Those pages were quickly taken down, but not before we were able to get our paws on the official details and images.

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The quiet, lovely streets of Playa de Belen, Colombia, nestled within areas of strife near the Venezuelan border. (Janelle Kaz/)

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Time flies, especially in the cockpit of a sportbike. Still, it’s hard to believe that BMW’s S 1000 RR literbike has been in the wild for over 12 years. Over that time it’s recruited a sizable troupe of active duty superbike riders who like strafing apexs at racetracks worldwide.

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The 2022 Harley-Davidson Road Glide ST is packing a Milwaukee 117 v-twin. (Harley-Davidson/)

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Kevin Cameron has been writing about motorcycles for nearly 50 years, first for <em>Cycle magazine</em> and, since 1992, for <em>Cycle World</em>. (Robert Martin/)

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Stuart Garner now faces up to two years of jail time after pleading guilty to illegally investing Norton workers’ pension funds. (Paul Bryant/)

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Kawasaki’s new patents show a nose-mounted camera with components from the latest-generation Ninja H2 SX. (Japanese Patent Office/)

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